[Cvs-syncmail] Please enable the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface for sending out mail

[Kevin R. <ke...@ro...>]

Hello CVS-Syncmail gang,

I'm forwarding a feature request from a Debian user.

Kevin

Joost van Baal wrote:
> Package: cvs-syncmail
> Version: 1.2-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd be nice if syncmail could supply a commandline option which would
> make it call /usr/sbin/sendmail instead of connecting to localhost on
> port 25 (which is what smtplib.SMTP() does, I believe).  On some
> (arguably misconfigured, perhaps) systems, this makes a difference.
> MUA's generally call /usr/sbin/sendmail to sent out mail.  Therefore, I
> believe it'd be a sane thing for syncmail to do this too (or make it
> available.)
> 
> (In the past, syncmail used to call /bin/mail or /usr/bin/mail.  I've
> tried to write a patch, based on these old scripts, but failed.  I'm
> not that fluent in python :(  )
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Joost
> 


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